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...Verbakel said paper for the new packaging would be from PEFC-certified suppliers, who source wood from sustainably managed forests. “For us it’s very important to move away from the fossil industry....
...His holding company managed a sprawling portfolio that included billion-dollar-plus stakes in companies such as Apple, Netflix, Forest Labs and Herbalife, while he was plotting bids to take over Clorox and...
...He compares the Chinese economy to a forest where the undergrowth — the shadow banking system — has grown too quickly. “It needs to burn that away without burning down the trees....
...This time he tried a product made by one of Allergan’s competitors. The verdict is unsurprisingly negative: “It was painful.”...
...Also owning Alcan would be a tremendous boon for Glencore’s aluminium business. I’m sure there would be synergies as well....
...Markit has also used the IPO process as a way to get banks to pay attention to some of its new products....
...FIM rented the helicopter because it is expanding the FIM Sustainable Timber & Energy LP – effectively a fund that invests in forests....
...Labs nears $3 billion deal for Aptalis: “Forest Laboratories Inc (is nearing an agreement to acquire specialty pharmaceutical company Aptalis Holdings Inc from private equity firm TPG Capital LP for about...
...RFHL and RCIL will maintain their stakes in certain assets previously owned by Renaissance Group (the most significant of which are stakes in Ukrainian Agrarian Investments and Russia Forest Products) that...
...“The water filters reduce the need to boil water, cutting the need to burn firewood and therefore to thin out forests for fuel,” says Mr Vestergaard Frandsen....
...“Layering [Amylin’s] products … into this existing franchise would be easy.”...
...There are also large businesses whose product has a clear geographical connection....
...The withdrawal is another defeat for Mr Icahn who last year pulled out of a $13bn bid for Clorox, the US household products company....
...Local governments have amassed large debts through off-balance sheet borrowing and, at more than 25 per cent of gross domestic product, these debts are seen as one of the big risks looming over the Chinese...
...“An undervalued stock” (or, timing is everything) On Wednesday, Canada’s Globe & Mail quoted Daryl Swetlishoff, head of research and forest products analyst at Raymond James, describing the forestry company...
...The complaint to the Geneva-based WTO targets Chinese anti-dumping and countervailing duties on American poultry products....
...The debt market for buy-outs is frothier than it has been since the global financial crisis wiped out collateralised loan obligations and other toxic fixed income products in 2008....
...This makes cultural consumption less atomistic and less obsessed by product....
...Field Court, Lake Forest, IL 60045; 866-456-5439; www.pactiv.com....
...He would not give details of the video project’s budget, but said the group would invest about $1bn this year in new products....
...The Bloomberg world forest products and paper index has underperformed global stocks by 23 per cent over 12 months, falling by a fifth. In Europe the industry’s problems are familiar....
...In the 1990s, for example, HMC began investing in timber forests. In 2004, timber holdings represented 10 per cent of the endowment....
...Each product is presented in a bubble, which might have worked as a magazine column but makes for a poor book....
...said the sale of its papers unit, which will result in net after-tax proceeds of $2.1bn, would leave it to focus on higher margin packaging businesses and "strong market positions" in consumer and office products...
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